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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184192 | Imaging apparatus that performs an object region detection processing and method for controlling the imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes an image generation unit configured to photoelectrically convert an object image formed by an imaging optical system to generate an image, a control unit configured to perform focusing control of the imaging optical system, an object de... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184193 | Display control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, display control method, and storage medium A display control apparatus that enables to reliably and quickly search for a desired image. When a wheel is operated by a user by an amount less than a predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a first display mode where a plurality of images are dis... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8164672 | System and method for displaying an image stream A system and method may display an image stream (200), where an original image stream may be divided into two or more subset images streams, each subset image stream being displayed simultaneously or substantially simultaneously in each time slot (210A... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8154646 | Image capturing apparatus with zoom function An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit which captures image data of an object, a zoom image data generating unit which generates items of zoom image data having different zoom magnifications, a display control unit which displays through imag... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149315 | System and method for changing display of an image during a changed state of electronic device An information processing apparatus capable of being opened and closed includes storage means, display means, and taken image display control means. The storage means stores a taken image therein. The display means has a display screen provided in a surface which is... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144233 | Display control device, display control method, and display control program for superimposing images to create a composite image A display control device includes: a composite image generating unit configured to generate a composite image by compositing a unit image and a still image, such that a still image which is correlated with a moving image and has a still image aspect ratio different ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144232 | Camera system and method for picture sharing using geotagged pictures A system and method provide interactive techniques for sharing digital photos, in which a user of a portable electronic device may seek out a location at which another electronic device was used to capture a photo. The captured image may then be displayed on a displ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144231 | Method and device for displaying images simulated based on different shooting conditions During framing, an image sensor captures an image of a subject and produces an image signal. The image signal is chronologically retrieved and sent to plural signal processing sections. The signal processing sections concurrently produce frames simulated based on di... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8063970 | Image recording/reproduction apparatus, index displaying method by image recording/reproduction apparatus, and computer program An image recording/reproduction apparatus reads image data from a recording medium storing plural image data to display the read image data on a TV monitor or the like, and selects image data of a same aspect ratio to simultaneously index display plural small images... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8026970 | Image reproduction apparatus capable of simultaneously reproducing plurality of images An image reproduction apparatus includes a flash memory which adds recording time information to an image and records the image, and a control unit which classifies images in the memory on the basis of the added time information, limits the number of classified imag... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023032 | Image display method, program, and image display apparatus A table is allocated indexes corresponding to display positions on a monitor screen, respectively, and data indicating an unexposed part at each of the display positions is stored in each index of the table. Focal position information is acquired from Exif header in... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018521 | Image reproducing apparatus, image recorder, image reproducing method, image recording method, and semiconductor integrated circuit When displaying an image taken as portrait-oriented image in a landscape-oriented display area, a cutout image including a partial area of the portrait-oriented image to be displayed is displayed. At that time, a whole image of the port-oriented image which is rotat... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013925 | Imaging device, display control device, display device, and image display system for improved thumbnail image display An imaging device which is capable of realizing an easily viewable thumbnail display is provided. The imaging device includes: an imaging optical system for forming an optical image of an object; an imaging sensor for receiving the optical image of the object formed... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004594 | Apparatus, method, and program for controlling display of moving and still images A display control apparatus includes a list-image-display control unit that executes control for displaying a unit moving image list image formed by arranging at least representative images corresponding to respective unit moving image data in a predetermined unit, ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7978248 | Data processing apparatus and data processing method for displaying image capture mode candidates A data processing apparatus includes: an image capture mode storing section that stores image capture modes each associated with a feature value related to a subject as a selection condition for selecting an image capture mode candidate according to the subject; a f... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7948549 | Camera system A camera system 100 has an imaging optical system L, an imaging component 45, a liquid crystal monitor 16, a body microprocessor 12, an aperture setting component 29, and an image display controller 15. The body microprocess... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7924340 | Image-taking apparatus and image display control method According to the present invention, by providing operation members dedicated for an operation of switching on/of the face detection processing, a face image switching operation, and proceeding to the next image taking, operations related to the face detection proces... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916201 | Mobile device, method and computer program product for displaying images on a display screen A mobile device, method and computer program product are provided for displaying a predefined subset of images captured on a display screen of a mobile device, thus eliminating the need to access a gallery, or image storage, application installed on the mobile devic... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7868941 | Data transfer apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and data transfer system The data transfer apparatus includes a recording unit which records a plurality of image data on a first recording medium, a management unit which manages the plurality of image data by classifying the image data into a plurality of groups, an addition unit which ad... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859584 | Camera system A camera system 100 has an imaging optical system L, an imaging component 45, a liquid crystal monitor 16, and an image display controller 15. The liquid crystal monitor 16 allows a plurality of images acquired by the imaging compo... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7847851 | Method of controlling digital photographing apparatus and digital photographing apparatus using the method Disclosed are a digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus that allow a user to easily identify the current position of an image displayed on a display within a sequence of images and to easily identify a consecutiv... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7839445 | Image photographing apparatus and method A photographic apparatus and method are disclosed in which a preview of an acquired image and at least one image quality variable image are displayed in a multiview image. The image quality variable image is an image wherein the acquired image is coded, compressed a... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7825979 | Display control apparatus and display control method The present invention reads the image recorded in a recording medium, and displays the read image in a display unit. In a case where a changeover instruction to change the display image to the next image is continuously detected, the reading of the image by a readin... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7768566 | Dual-mode camera A dual camera system uses a single lens and no moving parts in the optical path. A single lens directs a desired scene to a partially reflective beamsplitting mirror, thence to a pair of image sensors. For day/night operation, one sensor may be optimized for nightti... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7742094 | System and method for classifying files in an information processing device Information created by a device and recorded on a recording medium and information supplied externally to the device and recorded on the recording medium are classified according to creation date and time information. Each image data file recorded on the recording m... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7714925 | Method of marking desired images in a digital image processing apparatus using a go to function Provided is a method of controlling a digital image processing apparatus which sequentially stores images in a recording medium after capturing the images in a photographing mode and sequentially displays the images stored in the recording medium by receiving direct... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7710489 | Image reproducing apparatus and digital camera An image reproducing device that displays frames or index images of still images and moving images so that a user can distinguish the still images from the moving images when looking at them in one-frame reproducing or index reproducing. The display style of the sti... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7710488 | Method of acquiring multimedia data at a desirable timing and apparatus thereof A method of acquiring multimedia data and a multimedia data acquisition apparatus are disclosed. Pre-acquisition of multimedia data is performed before a user activates a triggering device, such as a shutter. The invention improves the quality of multimedia acquirin... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7710490 | Portable image communication system, transmitting and receiving units constructing said system, and methods of controlling said units When image data is sent and received between cameras via communication, it is possible for the user to ascertain the images that are being communicated. Thumbnail image data for transfer purposes is transmitted from a transmit-side camera to a receive-side camera. M... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7705904 | Moving-image recording device for recording moving image Object images taken for a predetermined period before a shutter key is pressed are stored in a buffer. During the period, past object images taken at every one second are read from the buffer, the read images are displayed in predetermined areas in a through image, ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7697054 | Image Manipulator for a camera A method and system for editing an image with a camera includes simultaneously displaying a first image and a second image separate from each other on a display screen of the camera and modifying the first image, via a user interface of the camera, using a portion o... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7683959 | Method of taking an image with multiple photographing modes and digital photographing apparatus using the method A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus that can easily determine a quality of a photographed image from an image displayed on a display panel included in the digital photographing apparatus, and the digital photographing apparatus using the method... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7675563 | Digital camera A digital camera is characterized by an optical system for forming an optical image of a subject, conversion means for converting the formed optical image of the subject into a digital image, selection means for selecting a layout at the playback time of the digital... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7667759 | Imaging apparatus that can display both real-time images and recorded images simultaneously The imaging apparatus of the present invention can display both real-time images received by an image pickup device and an image(s) recorded on a recording medium at the same time on a display part. The image(s) recorded on the recording medium and to be displayed i... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7646416 | Image pickup apparatus with storage of original image, first reduced image, second reduced image and thumbnail data An image pickup apparatus enters an enlargement display mode (in which enlargement display processing of enlarging and displaying part of reduced image data for normal display is performed) from any other image display mode. The image pickup apparatus also performs ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7586533 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and storage medium When a switch is not pressed, fetched image data for one frame undergoes an MPEG compression process, and the compressed image data is temporarily stored in a buffer. When the switch is pressed, fetched image data for one frame undergoes a JPEG compression process, ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7551219 | Dual-mode camera A dual camera system uses a single lens and no moving parts in the optical path. A single lens directs a desired scene to a partially reflective beamsplitting mirror, thence to a pair of image sensors. For day/night operation, one sensor may be optimized for nightti... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7538812 | Image processing apparatus having plural display units From among a group of taken images, an image suitable for inspection is identifiably displayed and can be arbitrarily selected. Also an image may be re-taken as a result of an instruction for re-taking the image and also displayed on a display. Images already taken ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7518650 | Image reproducing method and image reproducing apparatus A personal computer loads image data with tag information, which includes position coordinates of an image capture position and a camera azimuth, from an electronic camera. A thumbnail image, which is a reduced image of the loaded image, is rotated in a camera azimu... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515193 | Portable communication terminal switchably displaying pictures based on a plurality of video signal sources A cellular phone having a plurality of cameras and being able to switch display of a picture without interrupting display for the camera is provided. Processes executed by a control unit of the cellular phone include the steps of measuring a holddown time when holdd... | 04/07/2009 |
